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Another stupid article - Is Malaysia next after Sri Lanka falls knee deep in China’s debt trap?
This article appeared in The Independent site written by a Veasna Var, a PhD candidate and a Sovinda Po, a masters student. The gist of the article is that many countries are heavily in debt to China for borrowing to build infrastructure and commercial projects in their respective countries. Sri Lanka is supposedly drowning in debt to the tune of US$64b of which US$8b is owed to China.
Cambodia also owed 80% of its bilateral debt of US$3.9b to China. Next comes Malaysia, with Chinese firms investing some US$35.6b in projects in Malaysia and another RM56b for a high speed railway linking KL to Singapore. And after signing for RM143b worth of projects last November, Najib is back in China to ask for more funds and more projects. It is China’s fault again! Najib is so gullible and is begging to be duped again and again to get Malaysia into bigger debt? The bomohs in China must be working very hard on Najib to make him fall into China’s debt trap.
What is important and often ignored is that the debt is made up of concessionary loans or grants to these countries which means at very favourable interest rates. What is also not mentioned is that these countries are the beneficiaries of investments and infrastructure developments as a result of the loans and grants.
The big question, why is this China’s fault? Did the authors understand that it is these countries that went to China to ask for cheap loans to rebuild their countries and to ask China to invest in their countries? Are the leaders of these countries idiots that blindly went to China to ask for cheap money and investment only to end up in huge debts? Did these leaders know what they were doing, why they were taking such huge loans and grants and would end up in big debt if they mismanaged the funds? Is this the fault of China for being generous and helpful to offer cheap loans and investments at the requests of these countries?
Did China put a knife at the throat of the leaders of these countries to accept the cheap loans and grants? Who is doing who a favour in such deals and agreements? Who are the beneficiaries of the cheap loans and grants? With the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, did these countries benefit anything at all?
And if these countries mismanaged or make losses as a result of these cheap loans and grants and investments, why is it China’s fault? All these silly academics only see one side of the picture, China is benefitting and the countries enjoying cheap loans and investments are the losers, not gainers?
Why did not the leaders of these countries go to the West to ask for cheap loans and grants for the same reasons, for more investments? The West would not lend them the money? Or the West would charge them higher interest rates and higher development costs?
Are the authors of the article thinking individuals or thinking but with flawed logics, as good as unthinking? Or they have different agenda to paint the generosity of China as black?
What do you think? Why are the leaders of these countries forming a beeline to China for cheap loans and grants voluntarily if these are bad for them? Should they be running away? Are these leaders fools and willingly be conned by China? China is not their colonial masters and did not put a gun on their heads and tell them to sign or else as the West did in the past._________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.

China is really powerful, according to Kazi Mahmood
Kazi Mahmood of Worldfuturetv.com’s article posted in theindependence, ‘China’s hidden hand in its manipulation of North Korea and Trump’ if real, must be the proof that China is now the most powerful country in the world. China can manipulate North Korea and Trump which means the USA, to do its bidding must be quite something.
This is what Kazi Mahmood said,
‘The simple fact that China has allowed Trump to go that far in its threats against North Korea and has also allowed the North Koreans to go beyond the imaginable with its long range missile programme, are points to consider.
These are the very start of the bi-polar world that China is wishing will be forked out from a US irritation of China’s basic latent stance on North Korea.
We all know the UN sanctions voted by China at the Security Council recently is an attempt by Beijing to tell the North Koreans “we are here, we will interfere when needed hence you should continue with your long range missile plans.”’
From the above statement, China has allowed Trump to go that far, meaning China could stop Trump from what he is doing but China just folded its arms and do nothing is that China is the puppet master and Trump was just a puppet on a string. China powerful or not? How many of you think China could tell Trump to shut up and the Americans to stop what they were doing to North Korea, hands up. What grass is this Kazi smoking?
Also, China ‘has allowed the North Koreans to go beyond the imaginable with its long range missile programme’ meaning that China can control what the North Koreans are doing, like the Americans dictating to its allies and semi colonies like South Korea and Japan what they could and could not do. Is North Korea an independent sovereign state or a colony of China? Is Kim Jung Un someone that China can control and manipulate and dictate to?
And China could interfere and meddle with the UN Security Council and with the over powering and menacing presence of the Americans on behalf of the North Koreans? Didn’t China just been forced to accept the American proposed new sanctions against North Korea and China could not say no? If China is so powerful, how could the Americans force China to accept more sanctions against its ally North Korea?
What this Kazi Mahmood wrote is pure baloney. If he is to be believed, China must be the most powerful country in the world and making a fool of the Americans and Donald Trump.
How many of you think this Mahmood is talking sense or nonsense? The Americans and Trump and North Korea are so easy to be manipulated by China? Are Trump, Kim and the Americans stupid or what?_________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.

Forum on Rise of China and implications to US and Europe
‘NEW YORK, March 20, 2017 — Experts discuss how Europe and America might stand to achieve shared goals while navigating China's growing relationship with the West. Speakers include Sebastian Heilmann, La Repubblica’s Federico Rampini, Ambassador Peter Wilson, Susan Shirk, and Asia Society's Orville Schell.’
This forum was on the book by Sebastian Heilmann titled Everything under heaven…. After a short exchange the discussion turned into another China bashing session with the panel of pretentious white gods passing derogatory and negative comments about China and Xi Jinping. China is unreliable, untrustworthy, did not play by the rules, mischievous intent, a country of liars and out to destroy the world by hook and by crook.
Unfortunately I was not there for this would be what I would ask the panel of righteous, high and mighty white gods if they have read the history of China in the last 200 years and what the white gods, their forefathers did to China. Did they know that they invaded China, robbed and looted China, defying all ethics and international rules, forced China to sign thousands of unequal treaties with the barrel of the gun, forcing China to sign all its rights and national interests away, annexing territories/colonising China, bankrupting China with compensations and reparatory extractions for wars against China and to pay for their opium burnt by China, and still forcing China to buy their opium.
How righteous and ethical were their forefathers, all white gods? Everything they are accusing China was applicable to their white forefathers. How they forced China to trade with unfair rules, unfair playing fields, burning the Summer Palace and looting everything in there, and today trying to sell the loots back to China? Today they are claiming themselves to be champions of free trades and globalisation, honourable, righteousness! And I am not even talking about the rest of the colonised countries in the whole world that became their victims and how they were conquered, ruled, robbed and looted by the European countries under the rule of the gun and their white God and gods.
Compare the excesses and behaviours of their forefathers to what China is today. Who are the evil ones? Did they play be the rules then, or did China play by the rules today?
And the guests at the forum, also white gods and some coloured gods which, by their appearances you can guess that they were the descendants of slaves or nigger comfort women of their white masters, and they were all just as righteous and dismissive in their comments about China.
What is wrong with China wanting to continue to play within the rules of the free trade systems designed by the white gods while the white gods are crying foul all because China is making the best out of it. Now they are demanding to change the trade system they designed quoting human rights and labour rights. Did they remember they did not care a damn about human rights and labour rights and national sovereignty when they invaded and looted China for 200 years and the rest of the world as colonies?
How pretentious and hypocritical are these white gods? There were two guys trying to be rational and balanced, Sebastian, the author and the British guy. Watch the video to see how they behave, like white gods, doing all the right things and China the bad guy doing all the bad things. I wanted to puke looking at how they acted like the good gods, the ones that were wronged by China and they were trying to teach China what is right and wrong. It is not an exaggeration to say that the wealth of the western world today was built on what they robbed and stole from the rest of the world. They did it fairly?
See this video to see how the white gods were telling their white lies in straight faces. And I was not alone to feel so disgusted by their cheap and shameless charade, especially that little Italian guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2UUN1xFlA4
Below are some comments from viewers of this clip.
wikct2
Basically the West leading by the US is the biggest control freak and that poses the biggest threat to the development of the world that including all countries. The West leading by the US is realizing that China is finally catching up and this is the reason for them to constantly make up stories to make people to believe China is a threat and China must be contained. But in fact, rising China has been making positive contribution to the world, especially to the developing nations who have not been benefited from the West. Rising China is a different than the traditional dominators from the West. China is for peace, stability and prosperity for people from all over the world. The West leading by the US only cares about the well being for themselves at the expenses of others. We can see that from all events happened in the past. How come I don't hear the complain from China about the threat from the West leading by the US? The West leading by the US not only they are doing everything they can to contain China themselves but they are very good at creating conflict between China and its neighboring countries and using other Asians to fight against China
Spadey SayI am actually quick sick to hear of how it is the West who should decide what China should do. China should do this, China should do that. It would be more productive and do the world a lot of good if America and the west spend more time in thinking what it should do for its own countries in the very criticism that they are directing at China.
battwann88
A panel discussing China without a Chinese member. How interesting
teofilo
what's the deal with a bunch of white men and women talking in a program of Asia Society?
Shinji Kataoka
I greatly applaud China for their dedications and hard work. With that said, you guys should see some of the negative comments posted on many of the videos that were uploaded on the CGTN channel. Many are from the Americans. Also, China Uncensored channel ln YouTube are always posting their anti China propaganda videos and fake news about China and guess what? Many Americans, especially the Trump supporters and the right wing Americans. (they sure hate China, do they?)
Josh Tep
This forum was very, very well articulated and I loved how it showed different sides of the spectrum. To those that are still disillusioned about the Red Menace, I'd like to say that your opinions are outdated and are a threat to the modern world.
MrCrazyboyravi
That italian guy is so fascist , just like mussolini in WW2
MoonResident No.9
Disgusting... Remember, in the history, the past 400 years are the darkest authoritarian world ever since human emerge.
Gilles Milaire
Not a well informed panel, hence very little information except for their arrogance.
Yow Beng Lim
Five blind humans describing an elephant without having seen or touched one but assuming the smell they smell is from the elephant.
Mel Xin
Supremacists are always bad losers!
wad wdf
You're more likely to be killed by a US soldier on this planet than a Chinese one - that's just statistics. We should look forward to China's rise, the world needs a realignment in the balance of powers.
Pre114
These people behave as if today were still the heyday of imperialism. Well, news flash, the Chinese are becoming a major power. The west could either deal with the situation in a pragmatic way, or hang on to delusions of superiority and attempt to isolate China. I guess it's no surprise they chose the latter option._________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.

Asean countries should trade less with China to avoid dependency
In an article by a Sulaiman Daub posted in the mothership.sg, he advocated that Asean countries should trade less with China to avoid a dependency relationship with China and came under the influence of China. In his piece he quoted this,

'In a paper published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies-Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS), academic Sanchita Bandu Das argues that China is using its growing economic strength to advance its political agenda in Southeast Asia, including its strong position on South China Sea issues and negotiating for the use of Chinese technology, supplies and workers for China-financed infrastructure projects.'

The same article also mentioned 'white elephant' projects initiated by China like the BRI, ports in Sri Lanka and highways in East Malaysia. There is some logic to this kind of thinking. And there are alternatives to just trading and depending on China for infrastructure building. The assumption is that the govts of these countries engaging in trades with China and with China making more profits are daft, especially those that joined the BRI, built ports and highway that are white elephants and have no or little benefits to their countries. I would not try to argue on behalf of these govts and leave it to them to justify their 'stupid' actions.

While trade in these cases favoured China, it is true that these countries need not continue trading with China. They can choose to trade with Japan and the West. But if the products from these countries are too expensive and they could not afford them, they can always look to India for Make in India products. I think these products, if available, would be much cheaper than China's and would be a good substitute. India could replace China to build highways, ports, high speed trains and mobile phones etc.

As for infrastructure projects like the ports in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan govt can send trade delegations to Europe, USA or Japan to invite them to build instead of China. Oh, England is a good candidate too, the former colonial master that looted the island but forgot to build a decent port like what the Chinese are building for the Sri Lankans. Likewise countries in land locked Central Asia can follow this option or dispense with the 'white elephant' projects since they are white elephants and remain isolated and cut off from the maritime trade routes..

Actually the Americans are having the biggest trade deficit with China compares with the Asean states. The big question, why would the Americans continue to buy China and not buy European or Japanese products or the cheaper Indian products? The Americans cannot be so stupid right? And this applies to more than half of the world that chose China as their number one or number two trading partner despite the trade deficits. Stupid or what?

China, unlike the colonial masters that came to rob and loot these former colonised countries with gunboats, negotiates and trades with these ex colonies on a willing buyer willing seller basis. No guns pointing at their heads. If the govts of these countries, given all the options available, they are not stupid for sure, still choose to trade with China, there must be some logic to it.

I would like to see these 'disadvantaged ex colonies' steering away from trading with China and choose to buy more expensive products from the West and Japan or cheaper products from India. That is only logical when they put everything under the microscope to compare prices and benefits.

Who is the idiot?

PS. The Indians have conceded that the Chinese are making products that are cheaper than the Indians in India. Even the Indian gods are made in China._________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.

Another silly article in the media by a westerner
‘Can China handle growing backlash?’ by a Peter Marino, from The Metropolitan Society for International Affairs based in New York. This kind of silly question is no different from the question, ‘What is the intent of China?’ that I wrote earlier. The whole underlying assumption is that the present world order where the Americans and the West dominate the world and all countries must be meek and hapless and be ruled by the Americans and the West is the order of things, to keep the world peaceful.
China must remain meek and follow the policy of Deng Xiaoping, go quietly in what it is doing, with head bowed, lie low, be kicked around. China must just remain inside China, allows the Americans to sail its BCGs around the seven seas, to threaten China should China raise its head or step out of its shore. The policy of Deng also resulted in little countries, especially little USAs, thinking that they can punch China whenever they liked knowing that China would just bend its head and do nothing. This even led to a free grab of Chinese islands in the South China Sea that the West portrayed as China grabbing these islands. Fake news, fabricated news, distorted news, mischievous news?
The author even used the term ‘China seizing ownership of a port in Sri Lanka after local entities defaulted on the onerous terms China had demanded. The local outcry was substantial.’ What kind of fucking language and logic is that? Today, with the death of colonialism except for a few still under European and American rules, no country, not China, can go around to snatch a real estate from another country without the use of military might. Does the author still think it is ok to seize the American continents from the natives, Australia, New Zealand and Canada from the natives?
China has swopped its meekness ‘for attention grabbing proposals, strategic ambiguity abandoned for international military bases, high profile drills, showy parades and standoffs with neighbouring countries?’ What is wrong with building roads and ports in cooperation with countries that are willing? What is wrong with setting up international banks to help countries in need of finances? Ok for the West to set up World Bank, IMF and ADB? China cannot do such things? What is wrong with having a few military bases when the Americans have 1000 bases surrounding China? Land grabbing? Who is land grabbing? China or some of the littoral states of South China Sea? Who grabbed the continent of North America and Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Only white men can grab other people’s land?
Anti China trade sentiment has now bubbled up in the US. Does the author think that this is just happening today? The West have never been suspicious of China’s motives and intention? What are the intention and motives of the West and the author?
Let me volunteer to answer. China or any country that is not part of the American or Western Empire must remain meek, walk around doing their businesses with the heads bend down. Let the Americans and the West continue to rule the world in their terms. Is my answer correct?
Can China handle the growing backlash? What backlash? How many countries have joined the BRI? How many countries have joined the AIIB? How many countries are waiting to join BRICS and how many countries are waiting to join SCO?
The question to be asked should be, ‘Can the Americans and West handle the growing economic and military power of China? Did the Americans care about the backlash in the UNGA on its unilateral move to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel? China is now a super power and when its national interests are at stake, they would, like the Americans, say to hell with your backlash. China has stood up and would not be oppressed or kick around by little USAs or the big USA. Period.
No amount of silly articles is going to change this state of things. A new world order is in the making._________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.

Read the Reuter report below with its standard western slant and lies to discredit China in whatever China is trying to do to help Africa to develop and uplift the quality of life of Africans. The article started with the facts of China pouring in billions of dollars to help Africa in their badly needed infrastructure projects without which Africa would continue to be the neglected continent after being robbed and looted by the white colonialists. The colonialists came just to take from Africa for free and left the continent under developed.

China today came to offer cheap loans which the whites would not offer and to build infrastructure projects at a fraction of the cost if the whites were to do them. And in return the African states repay the loans with minerals that the whites would not want to buy. But the slant of the Reuter report is that the African states would be in huge debt that they could not pay. The truth is that the African states are selling their minerals to China and with the money they repay China for the cheap loan. Both parties have done their sums and the payment for minerals would be enough to pay for the infrastructure projects. The whites need not worry about the African states unable to pay or to cast doubts about their ability to pay. What is so bad about that? Why would they be in debt when they can sell their minerals that would have gone to waste if no one is buying? Why aren't the whites buying up their minerals? Oh, waiting to recolonise them again and take the minerals for free, like in Iraq?

The white colonialists did not buy the minerals. They looted them away for free from Africa. The Americans and the ex colonial powers are only interested in wars and selling weapons. China is the only country out there in Africa helping them to rebuild their countries for peace and prosperity, not wars. The real white thieves are yelling thieves. China providing cheap loans is bad?

Here is an extract of this set piece mischievous white man's article in Reuter. You can find them all over the western media with the same theme and agenda. The sub heading is already telling a mischievous lie. Loading up on Chinese debt? Why won't the Africans load up on white debt but prefer cheap Chinese debt? Either the whites refused to lend them for infrastructure projects but only to buy weapons or the white debt were too costly.

LOADING UP ON CHINESE DEBT

Africa is in the midst of a boom in infrastructure projects, managed and cheaply financed by China, part of Xi's "Belt and Road" initiative to build a transport network connecting China by land and sea to Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa.

China has pledged US$126 billion for the plan, which has been praised by its supporters as a source of vital financing for the developing world. In Senegal, Chinese loans have financed a highway linking the capital Dakar to Touba, its second main city, and part of an industrial park on the Dakar peninsula.

China's ambassador to Senegal Zhang Xun was quoted by the local press in March as saying China had invested US$100 million in Senegal in 2017.

"Senegal takes a positive view of China's role in Africa," Sall said at the news conference. "For its contribution to peace and stability and equally ... for the financing of budgets."

But critics say Africa is loading itself up on Chinese debt that it may struggle to repay, with estimates ranging in the tens of billions of dollars. That could leave African nations with no choice but to hand over controlling stakes in strategic assets to the Chinese state.

U.S. officials have warned that a port in the tiny Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, a host to major U.S. and French military bases, could suffer this fate, although Djibouti rejects the fear.

In Guinea, meanwhile, one of the world's poorest nations, China is lending US$20 billion to the government in exchange for aluminium ore concessions.

Below is another mischievous article, this time by a Japanese, Andy Morimoto. If you read the whole article you will see how silly he has become to misquote historical facts to justify his biased and mischievous claims like China entered the Korea War to divert attention from domestic problems. How silly. Everyone knows why China was forced to fight the Americans, the most powerful nation on earth, with rifles and hand grenades against tanks, bombers, big artillery pieces and rockets from the ships.

His definition of a failed China is when its economic growth fell to 3 or 4%! Is this not an economic truism? The growth of all mature economies would slow to this level or lower, like the American and European economies. Is this Morimoto saying that the American, European and Japanese economies have failed, failed states and out to do mischiefs? What are the growth numbers of these failed economies? 1 or 2%? Should China's economy grow at 1 or 2%, it will be in the good company of the Americans, Europeans and of course Japan.

His supposedly academic hypothesis, that China would resort to aggression if it fails as a country is pure bullshit. There were historical evidence and facts that the rise of big powers, Japan included prior to WW2, was built on conquest. The Europeans left Europe to invade and conquer other people and seized their land. They then went to the Americas and killed the natives to take over their land. Japan also tried that, killing Chinese and other Asians and SE Asians to want to rule the world.

The only exception in the rise of big powers is China. China has risen and other than military might, China is equal to the Americans or better in many areas. China now has more money to spend for sure and is using its money to help to rebuild the infrastructure of the whole world. America is as good a bankrupt.

China's peaceful rise is not through military means or wars of conquest. It is through sheer grit and industry of its people, in being the factory of the world. The few skirmishes with its two neighbours had nothing to do with its rise as a big power. Have no doubt that China has risen, peacefully.

The evidence against failed states is the reverse. No failed state has the chance to do mischief or conduct wars of destruction. The British, French, Spanish and Portuguese went out on a limp. The last two big powers that failed badly were Germany and Japan. They too could not do any mischief as the Americans made them virtual colonies till today. The Americans are their masters after defeating them.

Things have changed now with the American changing their agenda. In their attempt to isolate and contain China, they have unleashed the Japanese and allowed them to rearm, to remilitarise and consequently to do mischief and to conduct wars.

Would China be destructive should it fail, a story that all westerners and Japanese are hoping and praying everyday that it would happen. They even cursed their gods for allowing China to rise as a big power. Hopefully this day would not come in the foreseeable future. Should China fail, it would have to suffer the same fate as the Japanese, to become a colony of the victor. There will be no chance to do mischief. The Japanese knew that very well, as a semi colony of the American Empire. The American Emperor is always there, in charge and calling the shot.

History, historical facts are there to say that no failed state would be given a chance to be mischievous or to be destructive. Look at the failed states in the Middle East, Iraq and Libya.

Here is the silly and pretentious article by this Andy Morimoto, loaded with mischiefs, from Yahoo News.

"Question: Can China 'Fall' Peacefully? What will be the geopolitical implications for China, its neighbors and the United States if the Chinese economy tanks? Would China be taken off of its supposed collision course, or would conflict remain unavoidable?

The idea that China cannot rise peacefully has become something of an international-relations truism. The story here is simple: as China’s economy grows, its military will follow, and just as other great powers have used force to achieve their foreign-policy goals, so, too, will China. Yet while much ink has been spilled to explore the security implications of China’s rise, relatively few attempts have been made to examine the potential effects of a sudden and prolonged economic downturn. This might be about to change.

As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, China’s growth will decline sharply in the coming decade, from 7.7 percent in 2013 to 3.9 percent between 2020 and 2025. Some analysts are more pessimistic, projecting future growth rates as low as 1.6 or 1.7 percent. (To put these numbers in perspective, China grew at an average annual rate of 10.2 percent from 1980 to 2011.) These trends have led some at the National Interest to claim that China is headed for collapse and that we may be approaching the end—not a delay—of China’s economic rise...."_________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.

Foreigners setting the agenda for serious discussion in local media
17 Aug, I looked through the few pages next to the editorial column of the ST where more serious articles are posted, not the kind like who is eating what, which dog is prettier or why we should not feed the birds or monkeys, I noticed that only one or at best two articles were written by Singaporeans. Perhaps another one or two could be new citizens or PRs. This is the pathetic state of news reporting and journalism in Singapore, just like IT and banking, Singaporeans not good enough. In news reporting, Singaporeans would be good enough to write about hawker foods and Michelin stars or sports.
Two articles got me reading to see the agenda of the writers, one, ‘That China worry, again by Ravi Veloor and another, ‘China’s trouble economy a bigger worry…’ by a Suchir Sharma. Not dissimilar to the western media’s China bashing, the two biased western coloured lens articles, if you are to believe in them, had one theme, China is in big big trouble.
Ravi Veloor started by laughing at Alibaba for having only a market value of US$440 billion, far behind Apple’s US$1 trillion and close competitor Amazon. And this is the fault of Xi for the bad relations with the USA. He would not want to tell you that Alibaba has only recently been listed in the NY Stock Exchange and has a history of a couple of decades old at most while Apple and Amazon have more than double, triple or quadruple the history of Alibaba.
He then went on to talk about Trump winning the trade war and China is now faced with a long list of problems. On the other hand the Americans are merrily going around as if nothing is happening, nothing is affecting them. He even went on to say that Xi Jinping is having a lot of trouble at home, his popularity challenged, he is being attacked for causing the trade wars with the USA and would be held responsible for it. Other leaders that were in trouble were Putin and Modi.
Trump and the USA have no problem. Trump is having a great ball of a time putting pressure on other countries and leaders. No one is troubling Trump or putting pressure on Trump. The tape recordings of him hiring prostitutes and other saucy stuff are good Sunday morning read, the whole media industry attacking him is only for fun, making enemies of everyone and countries, including traditional allies and national leaders are non issues. Simply said, everything is fine in the USA and in Donald Trump. America is another Disneyland and Donald Trump is the happy Donald Duck.
Suchir Sharma’s article dismisses Turkey’s lira problem as chicken feed and claimed that China’s economy is the real problem. As usual, China is in deep economic woes. The greenback is rising and Yuan is falling which can only be good for the Americans and bad for China. And China cannot lower the value of its Yuan to boost export as it would lead to a loss in confidence on the Yuan as a reserve currency. China is in a dilemma. No a weakening of the Yuan is bad for China and the rising value of the dollar is good for the USA. The USA is riding high and carefree. The higher the greenback appreciates the better. No, it would not affect American exports. America is in control of everything and everything is in favour of the Americans. The falling Yuan was due to the trade war launched by the Americans, not a deliberate move by China to counter the hike in tariffs.
And the greenback is in high demands and the Yuan is not.
Reading the two articles, anyone would believe that China as a country is failing apart and would soon be bankrupt and broken up as a lost country. Xi is going to be removed from power. Hip hip horray! Long live the American Empire!
Now, are these articles fake news, distorted news or objective and serious intellectual discussions that no Singaporean journalists could produce? What are their agenda and motive for disparaging China with these fishy and loaded views?_________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.

North Korean officials preyed on women with impunity
This is headline news reported by AFP quoting a righteous Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. Is this guy an American? Did he read the news about American officials, including the President and a Supreme Court judge and several top officials in the White House groping and attacking women, raping, and getting away with impunity? Compare their acts with the North Koreans, what is the difference and which is more newsworthy or disgusting?
Kenneth Roth also accused the North Koreans of treating their women like ‘sex toys’. Mmmm, is this Roth a descendant of slave American slave owners? Did he know that treating women like sex toys in the good old days of black African slavery was par on course? Did he know that a white guest to a white slave owner’s home would be invited to have his pick of the slave girls in the chicken farm in the backyard?
He added with details, ‘Every night, a prison guard would open the cell. I stood still quietly, acting like I didn’t notice, hoping it wouldn’t be me.’ Wow, so dramatic. What would he think a slave girl would say in the dark days of American slavery? Let me try to remember, how about, ‘Every night, the master would open the cell. I stood still quietly, acting like I didn’t notice, hoping it wouldn’t be me.’ Is this familiar, or he has conveniently forgotten?
The evilest creatures on earth, capturing Afrikaans as slaves, treated them like animals country wide, continent wide, massacring millions of native Americans to near extinction, today walking around in white robes to condemn others as the evil ones, and they are the angels of Gods. Everyone is evil and bad, the Americans are the good guys.
Kenneth Roth also quoted this with glee. ‘North Korean women would probably say “Me Too” if they thought there was any way to obtain justice, but their voices are silenced in Kim Jong Un’s dictatorship.’ How many American women that stood up to exposed the sexual attacks by American top officials would also say “Me too”?
How many black women, many long dead and gone, would also said “Me Too” if they thought there was any way to obtain justice, but their voices are silenced in the American white conspiracy or dictatorship?
It is a lie, it never happen in America, the land of the free, liberty and the land of human rights abuses. Oops, no human rights abuses, definitely no abuses of the white Americans. What about black Americans? Latinos, Spaniards and Asians?
This is the kind of smear campaign the West has been indulging for centuries against Asians and the rest of the world, attacking them, badmouthing them, to divert attention from their evilness and wicked deeds. The millions of people they have killed in the Middle East and other parts of the world would not be spoken. No crimes against humanity, but any small things happening in other countries, they would accuse them of crimes against humanity._________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.

North Korean officials preyed on women with impunity
This is headline news reported by AFP quoting a righteous Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. Is this guy an American? Did he read the news about American officials, including the President and a Supreme Court judge and several top officials in the White House groping and attacking women, raping, and getting away with impunity? Compare their acts with the North Koreans, what is the difference and which is more newsworthy or disgusting?
Kenneth Roth also accused the North Koreans of treating their women like ‘sex toys’. Mmmm, is this Roth a descendant of slave American slave owners? Did he know that treating women like sex toys in the good old days of black African slavery was par on course? Did he know that a white guest to a white slave owner’s home would be invited to have his pick of the slave girls in the chicken farm in the backyard?
He added with details, ‘Every night, a prison guard would open the cell. I stood still quietly, acting like I didn’t notice, hoping it wouldn’t be me.’ Wow, so dramatic. What would he think a slave girl would say in the dark days of American slavery? Let me try to remember, how about, ‘Every night, the master would open the cell. I stood still quietly, acting like I didn’t notice, hoping it wouldn’t be me.’ Is this familiar, or he has conveniently forgotten? These are words that this Kenneth Roth have quoted from the movie 'Roots'.
The evilest creatures on earth, capturing Afrikaans as slaves, treated them like animals country wide, continent wide, massacring millions of native Americans to near extinction, today walking around in white robes to condemn others as the evil ones, and they are the angels of Gods. Everyone is evil and bad, the Americans are the good guys.
Kenneth Roth also quoted this with glee. ‘North Korean women would probably say “Me Too” if they thought there was any way to obtain justice, but their voices are silenced in Kim Jong Un’s dictatorship.’ How many American women that stood up to expose the sexual attacks by American top officials would also say “Me too”?
How many black women, many long dead and gone, would also say “Me Too” if they thought there was any way to obtain justice, but their voices were silenced in the American white conspiracy or dictatorship, the land of the free only for the whites?
It is a lie, it never happen in America, the land of the free, liberty and the land of human rights abuses. Oops, no human rights abuses, definitely no abuses of the white Americans. What about black Americans? Latinos, Spaniards and Asians?
This is the kind of smear campaign the West has been indulging for centuries against Asians and the rest of the world, attacking them, badmouthing them, to divert attention from their evilness and wicked deeds. The millions of people they have killed in the Middle East and other parts of the world would not be spoken. No crimes against humanity, but any small things happening in other countries, they would accuse them of crimes against humanity._________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.

The jade trade between Myanmar and China is worthan estimated US$30 billion a year - about half of Myanmar’s GDP. But jade mining is a bloodstained business built on drug addiction, slave labour and massive environmental destruction. Who should be responsible for the dark side of jade?

I watch this 6 minute clip presented by Channel News Asia. It talked about the primitive mining processes of jade in Myanmar and the low skilled labour that went scouring for jade in the country side and the mines. The poor workers took to drug addiction and many even died when mines collapsed or when there is a landslide.

Who is responsible for this? According to the author, China is responsible. Why, because China is the biggest buyer of jade. Oh, logical thinking. Is China involved in the mining? No. Who regulates the mining, the mines, the mine owners, the pay of the workers? China or the Myanmar govt or the mine owners?

The role of the Chinese jade merchants is simply to go to the jade market in the streets and shops to buy jade. They have no role in the mining of jade. Everything is controlled by the Myanmar govt. Incidentally Chinese companies would not be given licence to operate jade mines in Myanmar. This is a national treasure that only Myanmese are allowed to engage in.

So, why is China responsible for the plight of the workers, their deplorable working condition, the exploitation of the workers, their drug addiction? Who employed these workers, paid them, who supplied drugs to these workers? China?

The CNA commentator interviewed a Myanmese in the clip and the Myanmese also conveniently claimed that China, the Chinese govt is responsible for the plight of the jade workers. Believe it? Third world mindset, blame others. I can't blame the author Pearl Forss because as a white man, all the problems in the world are created by China and other counties except by the whites. The whites are the angels and the saviours of human civilisation through conquest, invasion, colonialism and imperialism. China is the bad guy in everything.

Here in the jade industry, if the Chinese would not be the buyers and not spending billions annually in Myanmar, there would be no problem of jade workers suffering from exploitation and drug addition. They would live better lives and Myanmar would be richer. It is all China's fault. China should stop contributing half of the Myanmese GDP and Myanmar and the Myanmese would be richer and happier people.

My recommendation is for China to cease buying jade from Myanmar and all the problems would go away. Maybe if the white men were to start buying jade from Myanmar instead of China, the fate of the jade workers would be better. They would intervene and tell the Myanmese govt how to run the jade mines and imposed safety regulations, minimum wage and hygiene and good living conditions for the workers.

This kind of one sided mischievous articles blaming China for everything in the world, even the exploitation of jade workers, when China has no right to interfere, is the modus operandi of subversive western media. They simply accused and alleged that China is responsible for the plight of Myanmese jade workers even when China has nothing to do with them except spending billions as buyers of jade. Unwary and unthinking viewers would simply be taken in by this one sided presentation of the author.

The same logic can be apply generally to Singapore as we buy everything from the rest of the world. So if the farmers or fishermen were ill treated, took to drugs, underpaid in their countries, the Singapore govt is responsible. Is this logical thinking or subversive reasoning?

Next time if you patronise a hawker centre, make sure the old uncles and aunties cleaning the tables are not badly treated, paid well, and not indulging in drugs. Because as a customer, you are responsible for their welfare and good health, not the employer or the govt.

The whites would continue to create such rubbish and stir up shit to smear China and the Chinese people given the opportunity, and the little USAs would be ready and most willing to give a helping hand. This is the same western smear like China giving cheap loans, helping to build infrastructures but if the recipient country miscalculated, mismanaged then it is China's fault.

PS. How would such articles be classified, fake news, disinformation, mischievous article or responsible/irresponsible or objective news?_________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.

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Beware of western media and western narratives
‘Security threats to watch this year’ by a Peter Apps, Reuters global affairs columnist appearing in thenewpaper is what one would read, unconsciously, and be poisoned by the biased and one sided view of the West, seeing the world from the interest and perspective of the West. In the article Apps talked about Russian designs on Ukraine, tension in South China Sea and conflicts in Yemen and Syria, but no American design.
The troubles in the world today are all due to other countries and not the USA or European powers. Ukraine is about Russian aggression and not about Americans pushing over the limits into once Russian influenced region that the US promised not to infringe. The South China Sea tension is about Chinese ambition and claims on the islands, not about other South East Asian countries claiming these islands and grabbing them from China. And definitely not about the highly provocative ‘freedom of navigation’ ruse advanced by the Americans that threatens war with China to protect American dominance and the American Empire.
Syria is about the Turks and Syrian govt wiping out the Kurdish rebels that were financed, trained and supported by the Americans to overthrow the Assad govt. The Americans have lost the battle in Syria and withdrawing but insisted that no one, not the Turkish govt or Syrian govt, is allowed to attack and destroy their terrorist organization aka Kurdish rebels.
The western media would not mention about the wicked and destructive designs of the Americans and the West in trying to do regime change, invasion of countries like Iran, North Korea, Syria or Venezuela. They would be silent on the American conspiracy to start another terrorist war in Xinjiang by promoting, financing and arming the Uighur terrorists in the region to cause disorder and warfare for the Chinese govt.
They would keep on harping about the provocative ‘freedom of navigation’ as if it is a natural and rightful thing for the Americans from across the Pacific Ocean to create trouble and war in the region.
They would not talk about the Americans inciting the Rohingyas to rebel against the Myanmese govt and keep pressurizing the Myanmese govt to accommodate the Rohingyas into their country, a Muslim population that is at odds to a Buddhist country instead of trying to get other Muslim states like Bangladesh to bring back the Rohingyas that could easily assimilate into the country of similar religion and race. Like it or not, Rohingyas in Myanmar would be like planting Israel in the Middle East and would end up in perpetual acrimony and hate crimes with the Buddhist Myanmese.
The western narrative would never talk about the evil and wicked designs of the Evil American Empire and the West to cause instability and war in other countries and region. They are never at fault, never the cause of trouble to the rest of the world, they are the angels of the world. It is their right, a natural state of affair to intervene and interfere in the affairs of other countries, incite and provoke wars, support and finance terrorist organizations to rebel and to conduct regime change. All this is normal to the Evil American Empire, nothing to talk about.
Innocent readers must always be on guard against one sided western narratives demonizing other countries and painting them as the evil ones while implying that the West and the Americans are the peace loving people, the good people, the peaceful people that never kill or support terrorist organizations and activities when they are the Number One Terrorist in all counts in every corner of the world. All the troubles and wars are caused by the Number One Terrorist, the Americans, supported by the western powers. This is a fact. Period.
2019, watch out for the Evil Americans what they are going to do to start more wars._________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.

Medhi Hasan - What is the human cost to USA's economic miracle?
My title to this article is inspired by Medhi Hasan’s Head to Head programme with a similar title, What is the human cost to China's economic miracle? Broadcast by Al Jazeera on Mar 15, 2019. The Medhi Hasan programme had these paragraphs as an introduction,
‘In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Charles Liu, Senior Fellow at Peking University, seasoned Chinese entrepreneur and informal adviser to the Chinese government, on Xi Jinping’s record in power so far, the government’s crackdown on the Uighur Muslim minority, and what role for China if it becomes the 21st century’s military and economic superpower….
But the economic boom has been paired with an increase in state surveillance and crackdowns on dissent, as well as the repression of the Muslim Uighur minority. So at what cost has China’s economic miracle come? And what’s the future for civil liberties of the Chinese people?....’
To cut matter short, Medhi Hasan’s main agenda was about China’s treatment of the Uighur minority problem and the militant Uighurs being detained in reeducation camp in Xinjiang. He claimed that according to western analysts, American sources and satellite images, there were 1m Uighurs arrested and detained in the reeducation camp and treated cruelly by the Chinese authorities, suffering from interrogation and harsh treatments. Mehdi Hasan loved what he was doing and acting so smug as he read out his prepared questions to humiliate his Chinese panel of experts on how bad China was in treating the Uighurs.
I have only a few questions to ask him. How reliable were his sources of information on the 1m Uighurs in detention camp produced by the Americans and western sources? Could satellite photographs really show 1m detainees? How much land or buildings would be needed to house 1m detainees? 1m people is more than a small city or a big town.
Anyway, I would want to put him on the stand and ask the same questions he asked the Chinese on the American economic miracle and the human cost involved. If I can remember, several tens of millions of native Americans were terminated under the fire power of white American invaders called soldiers. Many were terminated, especially the womenfolks, the old and the young by European diseases planted into the villages which they had no exposure and resistance to, thus wiping out thousands of native Americans in the process.
That was not all. The survivors of this nationwide genocide were sent on a long march to the reservations, ie poor desert land, to thrive and survive on their own. No, the white Americans did not send them to reeducation camps. And the number of surviving natives from the genocide was still in the millions, not 1m Uighurs.
The human cost of the American economic miracle did not stop at the massacre of the native Indians, to the tune of several tens of millions, but also include nation wide slavery of African slaves. These slaves had no protection of human rights from their white predators. They were hunted down like animals in Africa and brought to America in slave ships, chained and caged like animals.
What is the human cost of this black slavery of Africans? Could Medhi Hasan give an answer to the genocide of native Americans and slavery of Africans?
Another question I would like to ask Medhi Hasan is how to solve the violent problems of the Uighurs? They were conducting terrorist attacks all over Xinjiang and the neighbouring states, suicide bombers and attacking and killing people on the streets?
If he can’t find a good solution, I would suggest that he proposed to China to learn from the white Americans and do what they did to the native Americans. Then, after wiping them out from the surface of the earth, there will be no more problems from them. Then China can go all over the world championing human rights, without the native Indians and African slaves, just like the Americans are doing today.
What do you think, Medhi Hasan?_________________what i posted is just my personal view. feel free to disagree.